A researcher wants to find out how much anxiety 11th graders in American high schools experience while taking the ACT examination? Match the parts of the experiment to their appropriate terms. 1. The ACT examination independent variable. 2. Anxiety dependent variable. 3. 11th graders sample. 4. American high schools population.

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Hadassah Kane

22 January, 05:20

A researcher wants to find out how much anxiety 11th graders in American high schools experience while taking the ACT examination? Match the parts of the experiment to their appropriate terms. 1. The ACT examination independent variable. 2. Anxiety dependent variable. 3. 11th graders sample. 4. American high schools population.

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Phoenix Lynch · Answer 1

Independent variable: the ACT examination.

Dependent variable : anxiety.

Population : American high schools.

Sample : 11th graders.

Explanation:

Independent variable: In research, the independent variable is the variable that is being manipulated or changed by a researcher or experimenter during experimentation or conducting research. Any changes or manipulation in the independent variable will cause a direct change in the dependent variable.

Dependent variable: In research, the dependent variable is the variable that is being tested or controlled by the experimenter or the researcher in an experiment.

Population: A particular group size being selected randomly by the researcher to study.

Sample: A sample is considered as a set of objects and/or individuals that are being collected by the experimenter from a specific population through a well-defined procedure.